Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Atoms & Molecules
Models & Formulas
Properties & Changes
100

What is the smallest building block of matter?

What is an atom?

100

Substances have different properties because they are made of different groups of ______.

What are atoms?

100

A group of two or more atoms bonded together is called a ______.

What is a molecule?

100

What does a model help us do in science?

What is visualize or explain something we cannot directly see. 

100

The temperature at which a substance changes from solid to liquid is called the ______.

What is melting point?

200

What is the process in which substances rearrange to form new substances?

What is a chemical reaction?

200

Groups of atoms repeat to make up a ______.

What is a substance?

200

What do molecules combine to form?

What is Substances?

200

What does the subscript in Hâ‚‚O tell us?

What is the number of atoms of that element?

200

A characteristic of a substance that can be observed or measured is called a ______.

What is property? 

300

What is a representation scientists use to study things too small to see?

What is a model?

300

Why do scientists use models in studying chemical reactions?

What is  things can be too small or too large to see.

300

In water (Hâ‚‚O), how many hydrogen atoms are there?

What is 2?

300

Which model tool shows how substances rearrange in a reaction?

What is a chemical reaction simulation or reaction model?

300

Give one example of a physical property.

What is Color, density, melting point, etc? 

400

What is the written way of showing the atoms in a substance (like Hâ‚‚O)?

What is a chemical formula?

400

When the type or number of atoms in a group changes, what happens?

What is the substance changes.

400

True or False: Atoms can be destroyed in a chemical reaction.

What is false? (they only rearrange)

400

How is a chemical formula different from a model drawing?

What is a formula uses letters/numbers, a model shows pictures of atoms.

400

How can you tell a chemical reaction has happened?

What is a new substances with different properties are formed.

500

What are the substances you start with in a chemical reaction?

What are reactants?

500

Different substances have different ______.

What is  properties?

500

Which has more atoms: COâ‚‚ or Hâ‚‚Oâ‚‚?

What is Hâ‚‚Oâ‚‚?  (4 atoms)

500

Which formula shows one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms?

What is CHâ‚„ (methane)? 

500

When two substances combine and bubbles form, what does this show?

What is a chemical reaction has occurred?

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